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Public land deals give hot neighborhoods affordable housing (Greater Greater Washington): “While demand to live in DC rises, its stock of low-priced homes is shrinking. Projects on city-owned land have created many mixed-income housing opportunities throughout the city [...] but the future direction for public land redevelopment is unclear [...] While the District has completed many successful projects, many more opportunities remain to realize public benefits from public land.” Cheryl Cort, Policy Director for (Catalogue nonprofit) the Coalition for Smarter Growth, discusses the Coalition’s new paper on DC’s use of “public land to provide affordable housing and other community benefits.”

Nonprofit’s turnaround has brought it lots of attention (Washington Post: Business): “When David Snider inherited Young Playwrights’ Theater seven years ago, he knew he had to shake up an arts education organization that at the time was struggling [...] By the end of his first year as executive director, Young Playwrights’ had turned its deficit into a $34,000 surplus and it has been operating in the black ever since.” YPT also became a Catalogue nonprofit the following year and was re-featured in 2009/2010. Learn more about their awesome residency and workshop programs right here.

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